Today Jamie and I earned a slab of freshly butchered pork for hull repairs to a "long boat" (18ft fibre glass outboard powered boat, ubiquitous in the islands). We cooked it up back on the boat with in a curry with turmeric, cumin, coconut and rice. Delicious!
The whole pig was given to us wrapped up in banana leaves. It had been slaughtered to celebrate the "coming down from the house" of a 4 month old infant. Apparently a new born is confined for some months before freely mingling in the village (an infectious disease control measure?).
We are still anchored at Gigila Island, as is Tony. We talked at length about PNG politics and his hopes for progress in the municipal ward of which he is the representative. It contains 509 persons across about 4 large inhabited and small uninhabited islands.
The whole pig was given to us wrapped up in banana leaves. It had been slaughtered to celebrate the "coming down from the house" of a 4 month old infant. Apparently a new born is confined for some months before freely mingling in the village (an infectious disease control measure?).
We are still anchored at Gigila Island, as is Tony. We talked at length about PNG politics and his hopes for progress in the municipal ward of which he is the representative. It contains 509 persons across about 4 large inhabited and small uninhabited islands.
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